Greg, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I think the current setup is working:
1. You click on "Submit" to post your comments.
2. You are taken to (for lack of a better term) an "interim" page.
3. While on the "interim" page, you are presented with two links, "View Post" & "Return to Forum", however, there is also a "timer" that kicks in and will take you automatically to your post if you do nothing.
I believe this "timer" gets in the way of your selected link (if you click on one). So no matter what you click, the browser ignores it because it is in the process of re-directing you to your post.
Perhaps you could either do away with the redirect, or simply make the browser pause until the new post is ready to display and go there, excluding the "interim" page.
Buzz